The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-28
BkECHER'S SUCCESSOR.
SOMETHING ABOUrTHE REV. DIR.
PARKER, OF LONDON,
Whom a Great Many Plymouth PeO-
pie Want to Fill Their
Pulpit.

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Church. Brooklyn, is in fsvor OF 81
gagiug DR.. Parker as successor to MIR.
Beecber. He will be the orator
at the Beecher memorial meeting 10
be held on June 9th, the anniverl ary
of Mr.. Bsecher's birth; and Plymouth
Church has passed a resolution tx
tending its hospitality to him during
his visit and inviting him to occupy
the pulpit at such times as 1t may be
found convenient for him TO dc 60.
The London preacher, it will De re.
men b red, entertained Mr.. and Mrs.
B.echer during their visit TO London
last year. He has long been ose Of
the great PREACHERS moet ardent sd-
mirers, ard their person a intimacy
wac one of affectionste friendship.
DR.. PaIkei's public life began with his
being a Wesleyan Methodist local
preacher in England, the country Of
his birth. He was a candidate for
the ministry OF that body at
time when it WIS torn by inter-
nal strife and mutilated by great loss
of membership. Hence no new men
we're received, and Mr. Patker's minis
ter!al aspirations we're temporarily
checked. Joining the Congregational
deEomiI alton, OF which he is now a
pillar o. strength, he was encouraged
to continue preparations for minister
ial life, and in time was chosen pa.tor
OF church at Ban bury, Oxfordshire.
His ministry there was popular and
II fl genital, and he ou' grew his sphere,
Rap httNu hgiTu nnlxg III fnUn Ha
accepted call to Cavendish Chapel,
Mapche ster, where he became i'm
msnsely popular. In 1869 he was in
vited to become pastor Ct Poultry
Chsptl, London. and consented. At
the beginning OF his pastorate there
he established service for business
men on Thursday, from noon to l
o'clock. He has ceatjnued such
service ever since. From the
first it has baen success,
The ground on which Poultry
Chapel stood WAS needed for
city improvements at the time when
tbs construction of the Holburn Via
duct was 10 progress. Ground in the
new thoroughiare wss purchased and
the City Temple, where DR.. Parker
now breaches, YVES built. The City
Temple was completed and dedica
early in the autumn OF 1873. Its Thurs.
day noon service is attended by not
only business men, but by ministers
OF all denominations, who sometimes
seem to form the lager pSrt of the
congregation. 1t is supposed That DR..
Parker breaches to mere ministers
tran any other man in the world. In
1873 he attended the meeting OF the
Evangelical Alliance in New York,
when he formed the personal acqualnt-
auce of Henry Ward BeeCher. At thg
close OF the Tilton- Beecher scanC a,
DR.. Parker presented to his church on
Sunday morning resolution of SYM
pathy with and Col fidence in Mr..
Bee cher, assuring them he had read
every word Of the trial, and iu ly be-
lieved in the innocence of the Plym-
outh pastor. This resolution was
unanimously adopted by the vast cor
gregatior, aud at nee telegYsphed to
p ymouth Church. The reply was
read at the evening serv CO Of the
same day. In 1877 DE- Parker star ed
a weekly journNl, which ba9 &c
circulation. A few years ago this Gun
iDent minister was elected Charm all
of the Congree ationsl Union. He is
the author of many homlletic and the
illogical works. One OF hia earliest
volumes was an answer to Eccc Homo.
1t was entitled Ecce Deus Many vol
umes of his sermons have been pub
lished. His greatest work, on which
he is now erggged, is hOmiletic Ri.
BILE commentary. The doctor is an
original thinker, fesrl So in ut GRANGE,
bold in deDuacistion, and at the same
time of a sympathetic and kindly nat
ure. HIS simple and strong preseuta-
ton OF what he believes to be true is
delivered with an extraordinary weight
and free of utterance, assisted by
powerful presence. In the Parismen.
tary election of 1880 DR.. Parker an
nounced himself az Liberia! ca ldidate
for the city OF London, but Afterwards
withdrew in favor Of The regul r party
nominee. He IL stauDch sdmreT
and supporter of Mr.. Gladstone, and
it was in his church, at convention
of ministers, thai the great Statesman,
whoi communiclnC OF the Church
Of England, gave that expression to his
views on preaching which led to his
being invited to preach IN dissenting
pulpits in prHticsl illustration Of his
theory. Mr.. Gladstone Gecliuei these
invitations, Should DR.. Parker decide
to leave London for Brooklyn, the
"City of Churches" would rel ,ice in q
most important accession to Ger pres.
ent admirable pulpit.